Asian Diaspora Studies in Education as Theories

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 9:50 am Four Seasons Ballroom 4
  In Roundtable Session: Toward an Asian Diaspora Framework for Educational Research (Table 4)

Abstract

We explore Asian diasporas as theories to push boundaries to contest the historical invisibility and exclusion of Asian diasporas in U.S. educational systems, engage in Asian diasporas’ present living conditions, and imagine Asian diaspora futurities to thrive upon multicultural/multiethnic/multiracial/multilingual Asian diaspora existence. We draw upon a wide array of works such as subaltern consciousness, AsianCrit, third-world feminism, and globalization. These works resist deficit orientations and generate perspectives from Asian diasporas to cultivate “collective well-being and thriving” communities and defy racism, imperialism, and colonialism.

Authors

• Suniti Sharma, Saint Joseph's University

• Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University